Part I

1. Definitions and Theoretical Overview

Required:

(Ethnic Groups)

Francis, E.K. 1976. Interethnic Relations (New York: Elsevier, 1976), pp. 6-9 - slc 305.8 FRA [PC]

Smith, A.D. & Hutchinson, J. (eds), Ethnicity (Oxford: OUP), pp. 17-31 - 305.8 ETH

(Nations & Nationalism)

Lecture Handout

Smith, Anthony D. & Hutchinson, J. (eds) 1994. Nationalism (Oxford: OUP), pp. 15-46 - 320.54 NAT

Recommended:

Theories (General)

*Ozkirimli, Umut. 2000. Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (Basingstoke: Macmillan), chapter 2, pp. 48-63 - 320.54 OZK ; also chapter 1

*Ozkirimli, Umut. 2010. Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (Basingstoke: Macmillan), chs 1-2 - 320.54 OZK

*Smith, Anthony. 1998. Nationalism and Modernism: a critical survey of recent theories of nations and nationalism (London & New York: Routledge) – slc 320.5401 SMI [PC]

Spencer, P. and H. Wollmann. 2002. Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (London: Sage), ch. 2

Connor, W. 1994. Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press) - 323.11 CON

Smith, A. D. 1971. Theories of Nationalism (London: Duckworth) - RAV [Smi]

Defining Ethnic Groups

*Smith, Anthony D. 1991. National Identity (London: Penguin 1991), pp. 8-18 - slc 320.54 SMI [PC]

*Smith, Anthony. 1986. The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 21-31 - RAA [Smi]

Eriksen, Thomas H. 1993. Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives (London: Pluto Press), ch.1 - 305.8 ERI

*Weber, Max. 1978. Economy and Society: an outline of interpretive sociology (Berkeley : University of California Press), pp. 40-43, 341-48, 387-98, 922-26 - KA [Web]

Defining Nations & Nationalism

*Connor, W. 1994. 'A nation is a nation, is a state…' in Connor, Ethno-nationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press), ch.4 - 323.11 CON

*Anderson, B. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso), ch.1 - 320.54 AND

Francis, E.K. 1976. Interethnic Relations (New York: Elsevier), ch.7 - slc 305.8 FRA [PC]

Readers and Reference Books:

Leoussi, Athena and Anthony D. Smith (eds). 2001. Encyclopaedia of Nationalism (Oxford: Transaction Books) - [NIS]

Motyl, A. (ed.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Nationalism (San Diego: Academic Press) - [NIS]

Leoussi, Athena and Steven Grosby (eds). 2003. Nationality and Nationalism (London: I.B. Tauris) - [NIS]

Hutchinson, J. and M. Guibernau. 2001. Understanding Nationalism (Cambridge: Polity) - 320.54 UND

Kellas, J. 1998. The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity (Basingstoke: Macmillan) - 320.54 KEL

Suny, R. and G. Eley. 1996. Becoming National: a reader (Oxford: OUP) - 320.54 BEC

Jenkins, Richard. 1997. Rethinking Ethnicity: arguments and explorations (London: Sage) - 305.8 JEN

Essay Question

·        What is a state and how does it differ from an ethnic group and a nation?

2. The Development of the State

Required:

*Poggi, R.G. 1978. The Development of the Modern State (London: Hutchinson, 1978) - RAA [Pog] , pp. 20-100, esp. ch. IV

Recommended:

*S. D. Krasner. 1988. ‘Sovereignty - An Institutional Perspective’ Comparative Political Studies , Vol. 21 No. 1 1988 pp. 66-94 – SLC PC 3093

*Tilly , Charles (ed). 1975. The Formation of National States in Western Europe ( Princeton : Princeton University Press) esp. conclusion - MAB7 [For] [PC]

*Anderson, Perry. 1979. Lineages of the Absolutist State, (London and New York: Verso) - RBF [And] , esp. ch. 1

*Poggi , R.G. 1978. The Development of the Modern State (London: Hutchinson , 1978) - RAA [Pog]

D. Held et al (eds.). 1983. States and Societies ( Oxford : Robertson)

Flora , P. , S. Kuhnle and D. Urwin (eds). 1999. State Formation , Nation-Building and Mass Politics in Europe : the Theory of Stein Rokkan ( Oxford : OUP) - 320.94 ROK

Tilly , Charles. 1990. Coercion , Capital , and European States , AD 990-1990. ( Cambridge , Massachusetts : B. Blackwell) – [ NIS ]

H. Spruyt. 1994. The Sovereign State and its Competitors. SLC 320.15 SPR

R. Mackenney.1989. The City-State ( Basingstoke : Macmillan) SLC 940.22 MAC

P. Dollinger. 1970. The German Hansa ( London : Macmillan)

J. Miller (ed.). 1990. Absolutism in 17th Century Europe . ( Basingstoke : Macmillan Educuation)

L. Krader. 1968. The Formation of the State ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J. : Prentice-Hall)

M. Mann. 1986. The Sources of Social Power Vol. I : A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press)

G. Poggi. 1990. The State , its Nature Development and Prospects ( Cambridge : Polity Press)

J.A. Hall (eds). 1986. States in History ( Oxford : Basil Blackwell)

J.A. Hall and J. Ikenberry. 1986. The State ( Milton Keynes : Open University Press)

Q. Skinner. 1989. ‘The State’ , in Ball , Farr and Hanson (eds.) Political Innovation and Conceptual Change ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press)

M. S. Anderson. 1993. The Rise of Modern Diplomacy 1415-1919 ( London : Longman)

Parodi , C. 2002. The Politics of South American Boundaries ( New York : Praeger) – [ NIS ]

Van Creveld. 1999. The Rise and Decline of the State ( Cambridge : CUP) - 320.109 VAN

*Torpey , J. 2000. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance , Citizenship and the State ( Cambridge : CUP) – [ NIS ]

Essay Question

·                    What were the main dynamics driving the development of the modern state?

3. The Origin of Ethnic Groups

Required:

Smith & Hutchinson (eds) , Ethnicity ( Oxford : OUP) , , pp. 83-90 (Instrumentalist) ,

pp. 120-132 (Historical/Perennialist)  - SLC 305.8 ETH

Case: The English from a historicist and instrumentalist perspective

*Hastings , Adrian . 1997. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity , Religion and Nationalism ( Cambridge & New York : Cambridge University Press) , ch.2 - 320.54 HAS [PC]

vs.

*Breuilly , John. 2005. 'Changes in the political uses of the nation: continuity or discontinuity?' in Zimmer , O. and Len Scales (eds). Power and the Nation in History ( Cambridge : CUP) – SLC 940 POW

Recommended:

Theoretical Perspectives

Sollors , W. 1996. Theories of Ethnicity ( New York : New York University Press) – [ NIS ]

*Zimmer , O. and Len Scales (eds). 2005. Power and the Nation in History ( Cambridge : CUP)

Instrumentalism

Peel , J.D.Y. 1989. "The Cultural Work of Yoruba Ethnogenesis , " in E. Tonkin , M. McDonald and M. Chapman (eds) , History and Ethnicity ( London : Routledge) - [PC]

Suny , R. G. (2001). 'Constructing primordialism: Old histories for new nations' , Journal of Modern History , 73 , 862-896.

Fearon , J. 1998. "Commitment Problems and the Spread of Ethnic Conflict" in Lake , David and Donald Rothchild. 1998. The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: fear , diffusion , and escalation ( Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press)

Laitin , David. 1998. Identity in Formation: The Russian Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad ( Ithaca , NY : Cornell)

Fearon , James and David Laitin (1996) "Explaining Ethnic Cooperation" American Political Science Review (December)

Hitt, J. 'The Newest Indians', New York Times, Aug 21, 2005 - available electronically

Suny , R. G. (1993). The Revenge of the past: Nationalism , revolution , and the collapse of the Soviet Union (Chapter 1). Palo Alto , CA : Stanford University Press.

Brass , P. (1996). 'Ethnic groups and ethnic identity formation , ' in J. Hutchinson & A. Smith (Eds.) , Ethnicity (pp. 85-90). Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Laitin , D. D. (1986). Hegemony and Culture: Politics and religious change among the Yoruba (Chapter 1 , pp. 1-20). ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press)

Slezkine , Y. (1994). 'The USSR as a communal apartment , or how the Soviet state promoted ethnic particularism' , Slavic Review , 53 , 414-52.

Whitmeyer , Joseph M.  2004 'Elites and popular nationalism' , British Journal of Sociology , vol. 53 , no. 3 , pp. 321 -- 341

Ethnosymbolism and Perennialism

*Armstrong , John. 1982. Nations Before Nationalism (Hill: University of North Carolina Press , 1982) , chs. 1 , 3 - 320.5409 ARM

*Smith , Anthony D. 1986. The Ethnic Origins of Nations ( Oxford : Blackwell) , pp. 32-119 - RAA [Smi]

Grosby , S. 1991. 'Religion and Nationality in Antiquity , ' European Journal of Sociology XXXII , pp. 229-65 - [JNIS]

Grosby, S. 1995. 'Territoriality: the transcendental, primordial feature of modern societies,' Nations and Nationalism Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 143-62 - INGENTA

Heather , P. 1998. The Goths ( Oxford : Blackwell)

Heather , P. 1991. Goths and Romans ( Oxford : Clarendon Press; New York : Oxford University Press)

Grosby , Steven. 1997.'Borders , territory and nationality in the ancient Near East and Armenia , ' Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , Vol. 40 , No.1 – [JNIS]

Diamond, J. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. (New York; London: W.W. Norton & Co.), see chapter on the formation of tribes in New Guinea

*Roosens , Eugeen. 1994. 'The primordial nature of origins in migrant ethnicity , ' in Hans Vermeulen and Cora Govers (eds.) The Anthropology of Ethnicity: Beyond 'Ethnic Groups and Boundaries , ' ( Amsterdam : Het Spinhuis) – [ NIS ]

*Smith , A.D. & Hutchinson , J. (eds) , Nationalism ( Oxford : OUP) , pp. 132-54 - 320.54 NAT

Hastings , Adrian . 1997. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity , Religion and Nationalism ( Cambridge & New York : Cambridge University Press) , ch. 6 ( Africa ) - 320.54 HAS [PC]

Reynolds , S. 1984. Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe , 900-1300 ( Oxford : Clarendon Press) , ch. 8 - 940.1 REY

Mendels , D. 1992. The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism: Jewish and Christian Ethnicity in Ancient Palestine ( New York : Doubleday) , ch.1 – [ NIS ]

Patricia McCrone. 1986. 'The tribe and the state , ' in John Hall (ed) , States in History ( Oxford : Blackwell) – [ NIS ]

Primordialism

*Van den Berghe, Pierre 1978. 'Race and Ethnicity: a sociobiological approach,' Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 1 no. 4, 1978, pp. 401-411. (and critique by V. Reynolds (1980) in Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 3, no.3, pp. 303-15)  - CE Library - I33 & Reference

Salter, F. 2001. "A Defense and an Extension of Pierre Van den Berghe's Theory of Ethnic Nepotism", in P. James and D. Goetzee (eds.), Evolutionary Theory and Ethnic Conflict (Westport, CT: Praeger), pp. 39-70 - [NIS]

Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. 1997. 'Genes, Peoples and Languages,' Proceeds of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 94, pp. 7719–7724, July (Colloquium Paper) – [JNIS]

Essay Question

·        How did ethnic groups originate? What maintains them?

4. Theories of Nationalism

Required:

*Smith A.D. 1995. 'Gastronomy or Geology? The Role of Nationalism in the Reconstruction of Nations,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-23- INGENTA

*Smith, A.D. and Ernest Gellner. 1995. 'Gellner on Nationalism,' Prospect, December 1995 – [JNIS]

Özkirimli U. 2003. 'The nation as an artichoke? A critique of ethnosymbolist interpretations of nationalism , ' Nations and Nationalism , vol. 9 , iss. 3 , pp. 339-355- INGENTA

Smith A.D. (reply to Özkirimli) 2003. 'The poverty of anti-nationalist modernism , ' Nations and Nationalism , vol. 9 , iss. 3 , pp. 357-370- INGENTA

Recommended:

Debate: When Is the Nation?

*Uzelac, G. and A. Ichijo (eds). 2005. When is the Nation?: The Debate (London: Routledge) – [NIS]

*Guibernau, M. and J. Hutchinson (eds). 2004. History and National Destiny: Ethnosymbolism and Its Critics (Oxford: Blackwell) – [NIS]

Zimmer, Oliver. 2003. Nationalism in Europe: 1890-1940 (London: Palgrave/Macmillan), ch 1 - 320.54094 ZIM [PC]

*Zimmer, O. and Len Scales (eds). 2005. Power and the Nation in History (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming), esp. introduction – [NIS]

*Delanty, G.; Hutchinson, J.; Kaufmann, Eric P.; Ozkirimli, U. and Wimmer, A. (2008) Debate on John Hutchinson's nations as zones of conflict. Nations and Nationalism 14 (1), pp. 1-28

Special issue of Geopolitics, vol. 7, no. 2 (Autumn 2002) – [JNIS]

*Smith, Anthony D. & Hutchinson, J. (eds) 1994. Nationalism (Oxford: OUP), pp. 34-35, 55-69, 76-82, 89-95, 103-112 - 320.54 NAT

Modernism

*Gellner, Ernest 1983. Nations and Nationalism, (Oxford: Blackwell 1983) chs. 1-5, spe. 2,3 - RAV [Gel]

*Breuilly, J. 1993. Nationalism and the State, (Manchester: Manchester University Press) chs. 1-2 - 320.54 BRE

*Anderson, Benedict.  [1983] 1991. Imagined Communities,( London: Verso) chs. 1-3 - 320.54 AND

*Hobsbawm, Eric J. 1993. (1990) Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) ch. 3 - RAV [Hob] [PC]

*Smith, Anthony. 1998. Nationalism and Modernism, (London & New York: Routledge) ch 4 – 320.5401 SMI

*Brubaker, Rogers. 2006. Ethnicity Without Groups (Cambridge: Harvard University Press)

*Francis, E.K. 1976. Interethnic Relations, (New York: Elsevier) chs. 6, 7 - slc 305.8 FRA [PC]

*Mann, Michael. 1995. 'A Political Theory of Nationalism and its Excesses,' in S. Periwal (ed.), Notions of Nationalism, (Budapest: Central European University Press) pp. 44-64 – 320.54 NOT

Giddens, A. 1985. The Nation-State and Violence, (Cambridge: Polity Press [1985] 1996) ch. 8, and pp. 116-21 - [NIS]

*Brubaker, Rogers. 1996. Nationalism Reframed, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) - 320.540947 BRU

*Smith, A.D. and John Hutchinson (eds). 1994. Nationalism (Oxford: OUP), pp. 196-240 - 320.54 NAT

Mann, Michael. 1993. The Sources of Social Power, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)Vol II, ch.7 (esp. pp. 227-52) - 303.3 MAN

Lawrence, Paul. 2004. Nationalism: History and Theory (London: Longman)

Spencer, P. and H. Wollmann. 2002. Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (London: Sage), ch. 2 - 320.54 SPE

McNeill, WH, 1983, The Pursuit of Power (Oxford: Blackwell) - 355.0209 MAC

Hall, John. 1994. Coercion and Consent (Cambridge: Polity) – [NIS]

Kedourie, Elie. 1993. Nationalism. Fourth ed. (Oxford UK and Cambridge USA: Blackwell) - 320.54 KED

Ethnosymbolism

*Ozkirimli, Umut. 2010. Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (Basingstoke: Macmillan), ch. 5 - 320.54 OZK

*Smith, Anthony. 1998. Nationalism and Modernism: a critical survey of recent theories of nations and nationalism (London & New York: Routledge), ch. 8 – slc 320.5401 SMI [PC]

*Young, Mitchell, E. Zuelow and Andreas Sturm (eds.) 2007. Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations (London: Routledge)

*Smith, Anthony D. 1986. The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford: Blackwell) - RAA [Smi]

Armstrong, John. 1982. Nations Before Nationalism (Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982) - 320.5409 ARM

Hastings, Adrian. 1997. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press)

*Leoussi, A. and S. Grosby (eds). 2006. Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

Roshwald, Aviel. 2006. The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Gorskii, P. 2000. 'The Mosaic Moment: An Early Modernist Critique of Modernist Theories of Nationalism,' American Journal of Sociology, vol. 105, no. 5, pp. 1428-68

Motyl, A. 1999. “Inventing Invention: the Limits of National identity Formation” in Suny, R. G. and M. D. Kennedy (1999). Intellectuals and the articulation of the nation. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. , pp. 57-75

Hutchinson, John. 1987. The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism: the Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish Nation-State (London: Allen & Unwin)

Smith, Anthony D. 1981. The Ethnic Revival (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Myhill, John. 2006. Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East (Amsterdam: John Benjamin)

Essay Question

·         What is the ethnosymbolist critique of modernist theories of nationalism?